Social Innovation Camp is an experiment in creating social innovations for the digital age.
Author Archives: Rowan Purdy
Introducing Ubiquity
A Mozilla labs experiment into connecting the web with language.
Debate on the growing influence of blogs on health policy
An interesting debate about the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates.
Improving information and choice about psychiatric medication
We are supporting a multi-sector partnership project to develop a website that offers people information about medications used in the mental health setting to help people make informed decisions about medication.
Patient Opinion mashes up public feedback from different sources
The Patient Opinion lab have “mashed up” the public feedback which government publishes on NHS Choices website, with public feedback submitted through their own Patient Opinion site.
Where does innovation really come from?
In his stimulating recent blog “Social Innovation: how do we find the right problems?“ Lee Bryant, Headshift co-founder, reflects on the wealth of agency led initiatives dedicated to the supply of innovation and asks “where does innovation really come from”, and whether there is “a direct link between these initiatives and actual innovation?”.
The power and the perils of using social networking tools in the NHS
Musings and final report from a masterclass for the NHS Faculty of Health Informatics.
Web 2.0 and the implications of the web based personal health record
Information about a new research scoping project into Web 2.0 and the implications of the web based personal health record.
Regaining control over email for all communications
This post offers suggestions on how to make best use of available technologies to support the most effective communications in the workplace.
Government Data and the Invisible Hand
A recent academic paper ‘Government Data and the Invisible Hand’ supports the growing movement towards opening up more public sector information for public reuse. Robinson, David, Yu, Harlan, Zeller, William P. and Felten, Edward W., Government Data and the Invisible Hand. Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, 2008. Yale. Available at the Social Science […]